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Which foods should be avoided during proton treatment
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@jeffmarc Your post on foods to avoid during radiation is very helpful. I planned to ask you if the diet restrictions are only "during radiation." That's what I thought, but I asked my oncologist weeks ago and the answer was, "as long as you're on ADT."
I still had doubts. But in @daveinflorida 's experience, he had diarrhea on the third week of his 28-fraction radiation treatment after he ate pizza. I am on my third week post-radiation, so I still follow my diet restrictions. And just now, it clicked to my mind: It was the pharmacist who first communicated to me the diet restrictions, before dispensing my Orgovyx, two weeks before my radiation treatment started. Now it makes sense that my oncologist who wrote the prescription says before and long after the last day of radiation, the diet applies. Does it?
Hopefully, I will be off Orgovyx after 8 or 12 months. Would it be better to wait until then before eating whatever and everything I want. I suggest the more replies we get, the better informed we'll be in this regard.
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I started Orgovyx 2 months before the radiation treatment started and no one, either MO, RO or pharmacist, said anything about modifying my diet until I started actual radiation. Then I was told to eat a low gas, low residue diet - low fiber, limited fruits and veggies, no caffeine, etc - with the goal of having an empty rectum and no gas during treatment. I ate the pizza in Friday night as a cheat night, won't be doing that again.
Vircet, dietary restrictions are ONLY for radiation. Once completed, you can eat anything you like!
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I have never had diet restrictions at any time. I had seven weeks of radiation and was never told don’t eat this or don’t eat that. After eight years on ADT, I can assure you I have never been told I had to eat a certain diet. I have cut back on a lot of things that I don’t know aren’t good for me, But I have eaten almost all the things on that list since taking ADT.
I have cut way back on red meat and almost never eat processed meats, Because I just aren’t good things to eat when you have prostate cancer, unrelated to ADT